Anonymous
07/01/2011 08:47
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Anonymous
07/01/2011 08:45
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Anonymous
07/01/2011 08:39
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Not a great literary work but A Secret History by Donna Tartt is an enjoyable summer read.
Anonymous
07/01/2011 08:39
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
I can't pick just one...so a couple I didn't see/may have missed
Wuthering Heights
The Handmaid's Tale
Ethan Frome
The Inn at Lake Devine, by Elinor Lipman. Chick lit recommended to me by my FATHER. This was extraordinarily strange, but he was so right.
The best book I've read lately is Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel. I devoured it, finished it, and then flipped back to page 1 and read it again. It's that good.
Wuthering Heights
The Handmaid's Tale
Ethan Frome
The Inn at Lake Devine, by Elinor Lipman. Chick lit recommended to me by my FATHER. This was extraordinarily strange, but he was so right.
The best book I've read lately is Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel. I devoured it, finished it, and then flipped back to page 1 and read it again. It's that good.
Anonymous
07/01/2011 08:35
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Angle of Repose and my recent choice - Cutting for Stone
Anonymous
07/01/2011 08:34
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stenger
Anonymous
07/01/2011 08:33
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Anonymous wrote:Kite Runner was amazing. One of those rare books that changes your life.
how did it change your life?
Anonymous
07/01/2011 08:12
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Another vote for To Kill a Mockingbird.
When I read the last line of Owen Meany, I literally burst into tears. I don't think I fully understood the meaning of that phrase until that moment.
Wind Up Bird Chronicle was interesting, too. The skinning scene stayed with me for a long, long time.
When I read the last line of Owen Meany, I literally burst into tears. I don't think I fully understood the meaning of that phrase until that moment.
Wind Up Bird Chronicle was interesting, too. The skinning scene stayed with me for a long, long time.
Anonymous
07/01/2011 07:09
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
So many...
Midnight's Children
Remains of the Day
Life of Pi
English Patient (such poetry)
Great Gatsby
Atonement
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
One summer I read Mrs. Dalloway and then The Hours - thought it was a great one-two punch.
I also loved OWEN MEANY (doesn't it feel as though that is how we should type it?)
Midnight's Children
Remains of the Day
Life of Pi
English Patient (such poetry)
Great Gatsby
Atonement
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
One summer I read Mrs. Dalloway and then The Hours - thought it was a great one-two punch.
I also loved OWEN MEANY (doesn't it feel as though that is how we should type it?)
Anonymous
07/01/2011 07:03
Subject: Re:Best novel you have ever read
Anna Karenina or Pride and Prejudice
Anonymous
07/01/2011 06:34
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Little Bee
Her Sister's Keeper's Keeper
Kite Runner
The Color Purple
Her Sister's Keeper's Keeper
Kite Runner
The Color Purple
Anonymous
07/01/2011 06:31
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Anonymous wrote:Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham
I first read this book as required reading in the 11th grade. I couldn't put it down. My other favorite is To Kill a Mockingbird.
Anonymous
07/01/2011 06:15
Subject: Re:Best novel you have ever read
Anonymous wrote:The Winds of War - completely captured me.
definitely best cheese-y beach read (and be assured that I mean this as a compliment, both to the author and the reader)
best classic: I should say Pride and Prejudice, but in truth, reader, I prefer my novel of manners/avante garde feminism with a plentiful dollop of overwrought passion: The Age of Innocence
Anonymous
06/30/2011 23:19
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Man, how can you choose just one?
I really loved The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. I read it one lonely summer spent in a strange town where I knew no one and was doing an internship which had me doing research alone in a cold basement room. Something about the mood I was in -- it just resonated with me.
I really loved The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. I read it one lonely summer spent in a strange town where I knew no one and was doing an internship which had me doing research alone in a cold basement room. Something about the mood I was in -- it just resonated with me.
Anonymous
06/30/2011 23:11
Subject: Best novel you have ever read
Harry Potter.